It is genuinely amazing to me that there’s a not unsizable movement trying to pin all our issues on him…I understand the logic of it fine, but it just doesn’t remotely scan.
For one it relies on us rather brazenly pretending we were some kind of well oiled fluid machine last season, who didn’t also ship a shit load of chances and get an unusually high number of penalties…which I guess means all our regular and much celebrated comebacks were just deliberate attempts to make the games more exciting, or something?
I know Messi comparisons are tedious as feck and basically the Godwin’s Law of football chat, but Lionel hasn’t scored or assisted a single goal in Ligue 1 and I haven’t seen a fraction of the think peices dedicated to pondering whether hes become a major problem for PSG.. whereas near every single positive memorable moment as a Manchester United fan this season beyond matchday 2 has been directly due to Cristiano Ronaldo… and yet apparently he’s completely fecked us because an unreliable stat metric says he doesn’t press enough? - (itself a team tactic we’ve only used once, completely out of the blue, to disastrous effect!)
I’m not saying he doesn’t present us with some issues, but come on, behave lads… This isn’t Ruud in 2005 - who by that point wasn’t exactly winning us games on his own, and even if he had been, it wasn’t rendering us a complete shambles all over the park.
If we can sort our shit out, he’ll get 30 goals lying on his back.